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Chapter 5: Do You Want to Die?

I was in that dream again.

Grass wet with dew brushed against my bare legs as I glided quickly through the meadow, barely feeling the ground beneath my feet. My eyes were scanning for another glimpse of the majestic creature I’d just gained sight of a moment ago before it bound between two large pine trees.

I knew if I followed the gorgeous white pony further into the woods, I would run into him again.

“Don’t touch me!” He raised his voice, but he didn’t sit up, and his arms lay limp at his side. He wore a mask over his face. Only his onyx black eyes were visible to me.

“Do you want to die?” I retorted as I inspected his body for wounds.

“…I don’t care,” he replied quietly.

My hands paused. For some reason, his words broke my heart a little, even though he’d almost killed me just now.

I lifted my gaze to meet his. His eyes were so deep, so dark, like infinite wells, and I feared that if I spent too much time looking into them, I might not be able to extricate myself from their depths.

“Well, I do, okay?” I said. “My father would yell at me if he finds out I left someone bleeding to death in the wild! Relax. l’

m just going to bandage up these wounds.”

He grunted a bit when I lifted him off of the ground, but he didn’t fight back anymore.

Silence filled the air, and I felt I had to say something, so I started with the basic question. “What’s your name?”

He looked at me with those dark eyes and answered, “I don’t have one.”

“Really? That’s strange, because I don’t have one either.”

He cocked his head to the side and gave me a look that was a cross between confused and annoyed.

“It’s true. People just call me girl.”

“Girl?” he repeated.

“That’s right. Girl,” I gave him a big smile. My father had told me that smiles were one of the most effective ways to make friends.

But instead of returning a smile back to me, he almost seemed a bit uncomfortable and moved his gaze away from mine. “And what are you doing out here in the woods all alone?” he asked.

“Um…“ | tapped on my chin. “Have you heard of the Sun Blossom flower?”

His eyes widened slightly, and I could see that he had heard of it.

I continued, “You know, the flower that grows on the side of the mountains. I’ve heard they’re beautiful, and smell won

WI

derful. That’s why I came. My friend was leading me there…”

“Your friend?” he glanced around immediately, his tone

wary.

“Yes, my new friend. A little white pony…”

He let out a breath of relief, and then said matter-of-fact ly. “Those flowers, they’re not easy to get.”

“My mother also said it was a fool’s errand.” | rested my hands in my lap. “But I love flowers. Don’t you?”

He shrugged and looked down at the ground.

extinguished. His whole body was

turned unnervingly silent, and I started to

are you still here?” | couldn’t stop the trembling

“Is something the matter?”

looked up in shock, my mouth agape as he

just happened?”

hand at me. In it was a beautiful Sun Blos som flower in

he said, handing the flower to me. “So I got one for

at the flower. “How

around me again until it was nearly pitch black. I could barely see

shouted, wishing

out to grab him, and that was when

was everywhere, dripping from my hand, sinking into the fabric of my pants, and the smell of it, rusty with alu minum, filled my

blood was coming

shouted. “Are you

me. I could see the whites of the eyes behind his mask, but in that stare, I saw no traces of

had stopped, but the blood

from me-I realized he was dead and that the darkness was about to consume

heaving and my heart was pounding out of my chest as my eyes flew

my face, I sat up in bed and looked at the fig ures of the other

Right. The palace.

was no wonder

beneath the curtains, and a glance at the clock told me that it was still quite early. It was unlikely

couldn’t go back

out of bed and decided to head to the gar den for a bit of

so I inhaled deeply, feeling

would be easy. I wished that my father were here so he could give me advice about how to proceed. Luckily, his lessons had been engraved in my heart. I

particularly beautiful rosebush. The blooms were a soft pink with traces of white, and they smelled divine. I paused to breathe them in,

right. I just knew it. Peace fulness settled around me, and I found a measure of content ment in the solace of

then… noises caught my attention and they quickly ushered my resolve

something crashing hard to the

bushes, and then I heard what I thought were growls,

and I immediately recognized one of them. He was the last person I wanted to

attacked… again. Really, how hated was he that this kept

that the Prince was clearly gaining an upper hand, I decided it would be best to get back inside. But as I

Shoot!

to my knees behind the bushes, I tried to hide myself, praying neither of

to be interrupted by me and ended shortly. Just then, I heard a familiar voice

as one last at tempt at self-preservation, I grabbed some dirt and smeared it on my face, messing

want to look at me. That way, he wouldn’t recognize me as the sole survivor of

was hard. His dark

halfway. My eyes immediately went to his chest, but then I dropped my head so

a bit of hope

okay?” The footsteps finished in quick succession as Jake, the Beta, stopped next to the prince, but Prince Theo raised a hand to

you doing here?” Instead of replying to

Your Highness,” I

“You

way to the kitchen… to learn how to cook for you… but I got lost…….” I lifted my eyes only slightly to try

approach me since last night.” His voice was a low rumble, and with every syllable, a new tremor of fear passed over me. “Let me make this clear. Leave me alone

Jake tried to remind him, “But

you realize that she caused him to get away?” | as sumed he

Alpha.” Beta Jake glanced at me and dared not to say

coursing through my body. He took a step closer to me, and I cowered,

end you. Do you hear me?” His words were as cold as ice and chilled me